Olivia Birkelund (born April 26, 1963)[1] is an American actress, best known for her role as Arlene Vaughan in the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children.
She attended Brown University and studied acting at the Circle in the Square Theatre School.
[2] In 1991 she made her television debut as Sondra Hill in the ABC daytime soap opera, One Life to Live.
In 1995, Birkelund began starring as Arlene Dillon Vaughan Chandler, Hayley's alcoholic mother,[3] in the ABC soap opera All My Children.
[5] Birkelund appeared in films Letters from a Killer (1998), The Bone Collector (1999), Uninvited (1999), Far from Heaven (2002), and on made for television movies Night Sins and On the Edge of Innocence (1997).